Sweetheart Shawls

Add new lace knitting skills to your repertoire - and make a romantic wrap for yourself or a gift. Best-selling designer Kristin Omdahl shows you how.

Create three unusual shawls and build your knitting skills with fiber arts star Kristin Omdahl. You'll create delicate, geometric designs based on patterns found in nature, with three included patterns designed by Kristin just for Craftsy. Gardenia Shawl: This cape-style shawl closes at the neck with a button or ribbon. It's worked from the bottom up with decreases, and adorned with six-pointed flowers that are knit separately and attached to the yoke at the end. Infinity Shawl: Create a rectangular shawl with armholes. Deceptively simple motifs are knit in rows, and assembled separately into infinity symbols. The matching lace border is picked up right onto the motifs and knit outward to create a scalloped edge. Tiered Jasmine Shawl: A top-down, triangular shawl with eyelet sections for picking up and knitting ruffled tiers. Each tier finishes with delicate flower-petal picots.

Lesson plan

Lesson 1. Introduction

Meet popular knit and crochet designer Kristin Omdahl, who will teach you to knit beautiful yet simple shawl designs.

33:13

Lesson 2. The Jasmine Shawl

Kristin named the Jasmine shawl for its petal-shaped bind-off. This top-down, triangular shawl is worked with eyelet rows and a ruffle edging.

13:44

Lesson 3. Finishing the Jasmine Shawl

Create the dimensional tiers on the Jasmine shawl by picking up and knitting into the original fabric.

27:17

Lesson 4. Knitting Gardenias

The cape-style Gardenia shawl closes at the neck with a button or ribbon. The six-petaled gardenia design that decorates this shawl is worked in rows, not rounds, then joined with a three-needle bind-off.

33:06

Lesson 5. The Gardenia Shawl

Short-row shaping on a knit cast-on creates a belled or scalloped edge. The arrow lace pattern is worked in an eight-row repeat.

18:07

Lesson 6. Finishing the Gardenia Shawl

Put the pieces of the Gardenia shawl together with a collar at the top of the yoke, a button closure and attached gardenia flowers.

18:19

Lesson 7. Infinity Motifs

We get started on the Infinity shawl, a rectangular wrap with armholes that features some of Kristin's favorite techniques. Start by making motifs in the Infinity design -- they look difficult but are worked with simple increases and decreases.

16:48

Lesson 8. Assembling the Infinity Motifs

Now assemble the Infinity motifs with steam blocking, sewing and pinning to turn your S-shaped motifs into their final shape.

13:22

Lesson 9. The Infinity Shawl

Move on to the Infinity shawl itself. Pick up and knit into the assembled Infinity motifs to create this beautiful and unique shawl with a scalloped lace edging.

6:17

Lesson 10. Modifying the Infinity Shawl

The Infinity shawl pattern can be modified to make a capelet style or a regular wrap without the armholes.

3:24

Lesson 11. Bonus: Styling

Kristin shows innovative ways to wear your shawls to show off their unique shapes and delicate motifs and edgings. Turn your Infinity shawl into a keyhole scarf or create a shrug with your Jasmine shawl and a hair clip!

"I thought this course was great, even though I've made several shawls, already. I learned some new techniques and got a good review of the things I had been practicing on other shawls. " - Souleja

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Lesson 1. Introduction

Meet popular knit and crochet designer Kristin Omdahl, who will teach you to knit beautiful yet simple shawl designs.

33:13

Lesson 2. The Jasmine Shawl

Kristin named the Jasmine shawl for its petal-shaped bind-off. This top-down, triangular shawl is worked with eyelet rows and a ruffle edging.

13:44

Lesson 3. Finishing the Jasmine Shawl

Create the dimensional tiers on the Jasmine shawl by picking up and knitting into the original fabric.

27:17

Lesson 4. Knitting Gardenias

The cape-style Gardenia shawl closes at the neck with a button or ribbon. The six-petaled gardenia design that decorates this shawl is worked in rows, not rounds, then joined with a three-needle bind-off.

33:06

Lesson 5. The Gardenia Shawl

Short-row shaping on a knit cast-on creates a belled or scalloped edge. The arrow lace pattern is worked in an eight-row repeat.

18:07

Lesson 6. Finishing the Gardenia Shawl

Put the pieces of the Gardenia shawl together with a collar at the top of the yoke, a button closure and attached gardenia flowers.

18:19

Lesson 7. Infinity Motifs

We get started on the Infinity shawl, a rectangular wrap with armholes that features some of Kristin's favorite techniques. Start by making motifs in the Infinity design -- they look difficult but are worked with simple increases and decreases.

16:48

Lesson 8. Assembling the Infinity Motifs

Now assemble the Infinity motifs with steam blocking, sewing and pinning to turn your S-shaped motifs into their final shape.

13:22

Lesson 9. The Infinity Shawl

Move on to the Infinity shawl itself. Pick up and knit into the assembled Infinity motifs to create this beautiful and unique shawl with a scalloped lace edging.

6:17

Lesson 10. Modifying the Infinity Shawl

The Infinity shawl pattern can be modified to make a capelet style or a regular wrap without the armholes.

3:24

Lesson 11. Bonus: Styling

Kristin shows innovative ways to wear your shawls to show off their unique shapes and delicate motifs and edgings. Turn your Infinity shawl into a keyhole scarf or create a shrug with your Jasmine shawl and a hair clip!

The instructor

Kristin Omdahl, Instructor of Sweetheart Shawls

Kristin Omdahl designs for both knit and crochet; she has published six books, developed her own workshop-style technique DVDs, and is a frequent guest on Knitting Daily TV.
Kristin Omdahl Designs can be found in major publications, including Interweave Crochet, Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting and many others.
For sneak peeks, personalized copies of her books and DVDs, exciting designs for knit and crochet, or informative articles about knitting, crochet and yarn, please visit www.StyledByKristin.com.

Ratings & reviews

Class rating

(6 reviews)

Great course, but one suggestion

by souleja@gmail.com on May 31, 2012

I thought this course was great, even though I've made several shawls, already. I learned some new techniques and got a good review of the things I had been practicing on other shawls. I do have one suggestion, though. I would love to see each shawl modeled at the beginning of the teaching about that shawl. I felt like I couldn't really get a good look at it. The styling feature at the end showed me what I wanted to see. I just would like to see it sooner ;}

I thought this course was great, even though I've made several shawls, already. I learned some new techniques and got a good review of the things I had been practicing on other shawls. I do have one suggestion, though. I would love to see each shawl modeled at the beginning of the teaching about that shawl. I felt like I couldn't really get a good look at it. The styling feature at the end showed me what I wanted to see. I just would like to see it sooner ;}

Anxious to get started

by scowan4738 on May 30, 2012

Really want to get started but have to get some other projects done. However, have listened all the way through the course and as always Kristin is an excellent instructor and she incorporates some innovative techniques into her shawls. Hope to see more courses from her. Would love to take a seamless crochet course from her.

Really want to get started but have to get some other projects done. However, have listened all the way through the course and as always Kristin is an excellent instructor and she incorporates some innovative techniques into her shawls. Hope to see more courses from her. Would love to take a seamless crochet course from her.

Disjointed

by KRON on March 30, 2014

Interesting designs, but very hard to follow all the steps in doing the shawls. The instructor skips so many steps between the lessons. Certainly not for beginners . . .

Interesting designs, but very hard to follow all the steps in doing the shawls. The instructor skips so many steps between the lessons. Certainly not for beginners . . .

fun and laid back

by dawn1959 on December 18, 2013

I really enjoyed the class and she is a delight I am being taught by a friend her sharing makes her all the more real

I really enjoyed the class and she is a delight I am being taught by a friend her sharing makes her all the more real

Not for neophytes

by Sussu on August 12, 2013

The course gave med a couple of basic shawls, fairly quick to knit and with room for my own creative variations.I would, however, be totally lost if I were a neophyte with simple knitting skills. After casting on and setting up the shawls, we are pretty much left to our own, with only the pattern to follow until bind-off.For the intermediate knitter new skills to learn were too few.In short, compared with the other Craftsy courses, this one was too thin for price .Not ...

The course gave med a couple of basic shawls, fairly quick to knit and with room for my own creative variations.I would, however, be totally lost if I were a neophyte with simple knitting skills. After casting on and setting up the shawls, we are pretty much left to our own, with only the pattern to follow until bind-off.For the intermediate knitter new skills to learn were too few.In short, compared with the other Craftsy courses, this one was too thin for price .Not all is bad, I did have fun knitting two of the projects succesfully and Kristin was especially inspirering when it comes to creating ones own shawls from the basic pattern.

Frequently asked questions

For your first lace project, we recommend Lace Knitting: Basics and Beyond with Eunny Jang. Kristin's shawl patterns are complex, and worked in very fine lace-weight yarn, but advanced beginners with a sense of adventure may enjoy this class.